On Feb 13, 2008 11:03 AM, Rob Desbois <rob.desbois_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> > > If arm-none-linux-gnueabi-gcc.exe is complaining that ../lib/.libs/libcurl.so
> > > doesn't exist, and you have verified that it does, then I don't see how it
> > > could be anything but either some kind of cygwin problem or some kind
> > > of toolchain problem. Try running that link command manually and tracing
> > > it with strace (assuming cygwin supplies that) and see what happens when
> > > it tries to open that file.
> >
> > It does provide strace, I'll give that a go once I've familiarised
> > myself with it and see what's going on.
>
> Errm...ok on its own the command does exactly the same; and with
> strace it does absolutely no library calls before outputting the same
> error message!
> $ strace arm-none-linux-gnueabi-gcc -g -O2 -o .libs/curl main.o
> hugehelp.o urlglob.o writeout.o writeenv.o getpass.o homedir.o
> curlutil.o strtoofft.o strdup.o ../lib/.libs/libcurl.so -Wl,--rpath
> -Wl,/usr/local/lib
> arm-none-linux-gnueabi-gcc: ../lib/.libs/libcurl.so: No such file or directory
>
> I can confirm that `strace ls` outputs a large amount of information
> so it does seem to work.
> Do you think this is confirmation that the compiler is at fault somehow?

Ok this does seem to be a wider problem with cygwin/gcc in general and
not confined to the vendor's implementation or libcurl.
Thanks for pointing me in the right direction Dan :-)

--rob
Received on 2008-02-13